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February 4, 2013

30 Minus 2 Days of Writing - Day 1

I started a little late with this challenge but I am going to catch up this week. The first writing prompt is "cheesy." This was a tough one to create a story behind, so I hope you will keep that in mind as you read this!

THERE'S nothing quite like a cheesy song to make your heart
flutter with thoughts of a lover.
Typically the cheesy songs get no street cred, but they are popular because of the feelings that creep up when we listen to the
lyrics. That is how Greta felt every
time she listened to Bette Midler. She couldn't help
associating Adam with the songs.

Greta
switched off the I-pod and clutched the keys as she got out of the car. There was a light drizzle as she tiptoed her
way through the neatly mowed grass. She
bent down and ran her fingers along the rough granite surface, her right index
finger tracing each letter across the headstone- ADAM GREY. Even though it was cheesy, and even though
she felt silly thinking it, let alone saying it out loud, she whispered, “Love
is a flower, and you its only seed.” She closed her eyes and pictured the face Adam
would have made- the forced smile, sucking in air through his teeth, teasing
her about her cheesy line. It was the
same face he always made when she repeated a cheesy line from a song to him. The image was so vivid it was like it was
really happening. Greta allowed herself
to give in to the memory. After teasing,
he always pulled her in close and kissed the top of her head and whispered, “There’s
nothing quite like a cheesy love song to remind me why I married you.”

Greta wiped the tear that had fallen down her
cheek as she stood and walked back to the car.
She immediately turned the music back on and as she drove off she
listened to Bette sing, “When the night has been too lonely and the road has
been too long/And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong/Just
remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow/Lies the seed that with the
sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose.”

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I am a book blogger and enthusiastic reader who loves to meet new people. I have serious obsessions with both yoga and candles. I think I must have been a flapper and a politically-minded hippie in past lives. When I am not writing or on social media, I am either drawing and painting, dancing, singing karaoke, or with my nose buried in a book somewhere. If I had money and health, I'd be traveling the world.